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TIL The World Mosquito Project scientists cultivate and release mosquitoes infected with a bacterium called Wolbachia. The bacterium is passed down to future generations. The bacterium appears to block mosquitos from transmitting arboviruses (dengue, chikungunya & yellow fever) & Zika

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alAL TIL that so many British men died in World War I that young women were warned that only 10% would marry. Newspapers discussed the country’s “Surplus Two Million” women.
JZw1 TIL In 1924 Paavo Nurmi won four golds, but couldn’t participate on the 10 000 m: “Nurmi was so furious that he took to the warm-up track next to the stadium and ran the same distance at the same time. Ritola won gold with a world record, but just outside Nurmi had finished first.”
0jyA TIL that Stephen Hawking was badly abused by his second wife, Elaine Mason
1a0gP TIL that in 1937, a funnel was filled with hot pitch, a highly viscous material. In April 2014, the ninth drop from the funnel fell, almost thirteen and a half years after the eighth.
a8pkJ TIL. Coral isn’t a plant nor stone; coral is a group of animals!